Compliment vs compliments

The plural "compliments" is often used on formal occassions. That said, in your case, remove "but", and

Sorry, no compliments from me

Chris

 Thank you for your reply.

 I need to ask one more thing. That is if you dined at a restaurant and you found the meal to be quite excellent. And if you wanted to praise the chef about it indirectly via a server.
Would you say
Please give my compliments to the chef. The food was excellent.
or
Please give my compliment to the chef. The food was excellent. 

Please Help me again. 

Hi,
#1 is the correct sentence, ie 'compliments'.

Personally, I've never said this to a waiter. To me, it sounds a bit like dialogue from a movie.

Maybe I just need to start eating in better restaurants.

Best wishes, Clive

Thank you.
I would probably never get a chance to use it myself either. 

Good question, unfortunately I have always used "my compliments to the chef" AND/OR "no compliments from me" because that is what I grew up with (my parents could be wrong and my teachers never corrected it). It is a fact the word "compliment" is noun and its plural form is "compliments" and it could also be a verb. If we were to use the word "praise" in place of "compliment" wouldn't we say